Caption:
Dish with the Expulsion from Paradise Dish with the sacrifice of Kain and Abel and the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise, Round dish of multicolored painted majolica with the sacrifice of Kain and Abel the Expulsion of Adam and Eva from paradise. Paradise is represented as a walled garden. Adam and Eve walk on the wall, who are sent out of paradise by a flying angel. Adam and Eve lie on the floor within the wall, with their first-born son Cain among them. Adam and Eve have as attributes and hoe and a coil, symbols for physical labor. Kain looks in the mirror of self-knowledge while the body of his murdered brother Abel is burning in front of him. A lamb's head sticks out of the sea of fire as a symbol of God's sacrifice, Christ, that will redeem man. There is also an angel floating by the fire holding a banderole on which an unreadable text is written, expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise (Genesis 3: 22-24), altar, Jewish religion, anonymous, c. 1535 - c. 1545, earthenware, tin glaze, lead glaze, h 5.6 cm × d 48.8 cm